For nearly 37 years, Hays, a partner at Lewis Wagner LLP, has continued to enter courtrooms, building a solid reputation as
a personal injury defense attorney. Now Hays is preparing to take on a new challenge. He is the incoming president of the
Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana and will take office in January just as the organization is beginning to implement a new
long-range plan.

Each week longtime friends Bill Satterlee, managing partner at Hoeppner Wagner & Evans LLP in Valparaiso, and Kent Lindquist,
senior judge for the Bankruptcy Court in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, share their mutual
love of jazz by recording a two-hour show that airs Sunday nights on the local public radio station.

The Indiana Supreme Court summarily affirmed a Court of Appeals ruling that a jury should decide whether a real estate company
intentionally induced a law firm to terminate an attorney’s partnership agreement as the result of a dispute over a
land agreement.

The real dollars are paid on the black market for inside details about possible mergers and acquisitions, new public policy,
and information about cutting-edge technology. In short, the kind of private, confidential information that many law firms
hold in their client files.

Law firm combinations were up 47 percent in 2013, which is the highest number of combinations recorded in the seven years
that Altman Weil MergerLine has been compiling data, the organization announced Wednesday.

More than 6,500 Hoosiers will share $1.35 million in a class-action settlement reached in long-running litigation against
an online payday lender that in some cases charged finance fees that exceeded 1,000 percent annual percentage rates.

Indianapolis was America’s 26th biggest city when George Rubin began his legal career 54 years ago. It’s fair
to say Rubin drafted the blueprint that transformed the city into the nation’s 12th largest.

People are often unashamedly partial to their pets, even if many outsiders find those pets less than lovable. At Indianapolis
law firm Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP, a small knot of attorneys share a common affection for a creature generally
unwelcome in most circles – the honeybee.

Connie Lindman and her team of intellectual property attorneys at former Stewart & Irwin P.C. in Indianapolis found a
new home with room to grow. So did several other lawyers who’ve made smooth transitions with their practices.